Santa is back in the north pole. The New Year’s baby is here. Wondering what 2026 will bring.

If you are in the states, you have another year of Donald Trump. For many Americans, healthcare expenses skyrocket today. Budgets across the country will take a big hit. Add that to the strains of paying for all Santa’s presence.

For Donald himself, not sure if he was visited by three ghosts, over Christmas, but he will be haunted by the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein all year long. Some of his staunchest allies, have started to turn on him, like Marjorie Taylor Greene. With Jeffrey Epstein around more of this is going to happen. The Republicans will see a wounded bull and they will finally have the courage to turn on him

Up here in Canada Pierre is waiting to see if another conservative will cross the floor. He has a convention coming up in mid January where he is hoping that his leadership will be reaffirmed. If it is not, and he has to resign, he might have to look and see whether his paper boy position is still open. I think that was his last job that was not political in nature. Mark Carney is still in his honeymoon. Even with the Trump tariffs, he still remains quite popular. He’s also making friends with new trading partners.

So being a Canadian feels pretty good right now. Well maybe not for my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie. 1000 of the approximately 2700 workers at the steel factory will be laid off by end of March.

Also, I live in Alberta, currently existing under a wanna be Donald Trump premiere. She has set the

stage for a referendum with a question posed by a separatist group. This is so even though a petition question developed by the Forever Canada group received over 400,000 signatures. That question has disappeared into the Alberta legislature and may never see the light of the day I am fully confident that Albertans will vote to stay in Canada. But this will be after a bruising, bitter referendum process. It will be ugly because there are ugly people involved. Think freedom, convoy people.

Now that I’ve angered a few people, I’m sure that’s, all I have for today.

Try to enjoy New Year’s Day. I will be spending it watching the football bowl games.